Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that a vote by the European Parliament on whether to halt EU membership talks with Ankara "has no value in our eyes" and again accused Europe of siding with terrorist organisations. "There will be a meeting at the European Parliament [Thursday], and they will vote on EU talks with Turkey  whatever the result, this vote has no value in our eyes." Leading members of the European Parliament on Tuesday called for a freezing of membership talks with Turkey because of its post-coup purges, in which more than 125,000 state employees have been dismissed or detained. "On one hand you declare the PKK a terrorist organization, on the other you have terrorists roaming freely in the streets of Brussels. What kind of sincerity is this?," he said on Wednesday.

Source: CBC News November 23, 2016 08:09 UTC